Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), August 2013

by: petercooper
text: CURATOR(S)&#x2F;EDITOR(S) - Remote<p>Cooper Press (<a href="https://cooperpress.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cooperpress.com&#x2F;</a>) is a UK-based publisher of weekly e-mail newsletters to over 130,000 software developers - titles include JavaScript Weekly, HTML5 Weekly, and Ruby Weekly.<p>We&#x27;re seeking new editors and curators of programming and tech links for developers (we are also branching out beyond that over time). You should have experience with content creation or curation at even a minor level (e.g. blogging, long term tweeting, link curating, writing a book) and be confident with terse, to-the-point written English with the ability to edit titles and write summaries of technical articles and open source projects.<p>We&#x27;re looking for multiple curators in various (and general) areas and there are no fixed hours (but 2-6 hours per week would be typical). Please note this is not a $100+&#x2F;hour engineering role - no development work is involved. However, we don&#x27;t pay peanuts either and endeavor to be flexible and respectful to your requirements and schedule. This sort of role works very well alongside a full time job for some of our existing editors and can be a way to turn aimless Web reading and researching into a profitable hobby(!) :-) We are particularly keen for folks with experience with Node, the Web Platform&#x2F;HTML5, and popular science right now.<p>To register an interest, e-mail peter@cooperpress.com with any evidence of your curation or publishing endeavors to date, the topic areas you&#x27;re best equipped to cover (even if we don&#x27;t currently cover them - we&#x27;re expanding our range quickly), and your time or financial requirements, as relevant. I&#x27;ll personally acknowledge the receipt of every mail.

by: gthompson
text: – remote<p>I need assistance in creating a database &#x2F; statistical analysis of Lego pieces. You are free to use the tool(s) of your choice.<p>Here’s a brief description of the project:<p>1. For each Lego piece, find the minimum dimensions (x,y,z) of a cube that it would fit into. Round up to the nearest millimeter.<p>2. Analyze the distribution of the cubes, for example: “there are # pieces that fit into a cube of 10mm x 10mm x 10mm,” “there are # pieces that fit into a cube of 11mm x 10mm x 10mm,” etc.<p>3. The above analysis should be performed on the entire universe of Lego “official parts” that can be obtained from this site: <a href="http://www.ldraw.org/article/13.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ldraw.org&#x2F;article&#x2F;13.html</a> (--&gt; “Get All Official Parts”). There are thousands of parts.<p>4. Deliverables include the analysis above and the code and&#x2F;or files that you use to complete it.<p>This is for a personal project. Ideally the analysis above would be completed in the next few weeks.<p>If interested, please send me an email at gthomps at gmail.com. Thanks!

by: Jd
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>Distributed team currently headquartered in the Umbrian countryside (Italy) with staff in Berlin and S. France seeks:<p><pre><code>  (1) Clojure devs
  (2) Mobile wizards
  (3) Security mavens
</code></pre>
We are bootstrapping at the moment. Equity in large supply, cash on hand is minimal. Preference given to folks with some flexibility who are eager to try something new.<p>info@evr.gr

by: 3ba
text: ON SITE - Copenhagen, Denmark<p>I know this is a long shot but let me try anyway: We are Aion - a small danish company specializing in democratic infrastructure. Looking for an on site &#x27;all-around&#x27; developer with architecture in mind. First of all, a responsible person with great passion for web and code. You should be fluent in ruby and rails, with experience and work you can show.<p>Here is our stack:<p><pre><code>  * Rails 4 (mysql, postgres, mongo), Rspec

  * JS, Coffeescript

  * Less + Twitter bootstrap

  * Linux
</code></pre>
You can drop me an email at eugene@aion.dk

by: ycombcj
text: URGENTLY - SYDNEY,AUSTRALIA
We are looking for a gun web frontend developer and designer, seeking to use their talent to help a focused airline team put together business application prototypes using the latest web technologies and techniques. 
You will have 8+ years of experience and can point towards YOUR online portfolio. You will be fluent in English and be able to confidently communicate your approach and understand our requirements. You will have experience with a well rounded set of frontend technologies, backend development will not be required but familiarity will be an advantage.
Your initial engagement will be for 2-3months with an immediate start. Your remuneration will be competitive and opportunity for contract renewal will depend on your performance.
Exceptional remote workers will be considered, however Sydney,Australia based workers are preferred.
To register your interest, email recruitment@7skies.com with your location, skillset, portfolio link and remuneration expectation.

by: collinjackson
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>The Apportable SDK cross-compiles iOS apps to Android, without changing the original Objective-C or C++ code. Games powered by Apportable have risen to the top of the charts and delighted millions of users through the Google Play Store, Amazon Appstore, and the Humble Android Bundle. Recently Bjork used Apportable to bring her Biophilia music album to Android: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6059844" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6059844</a><p>Here at Apportable, we have an opportunity to port a game for very successful iOS developer who wants to use our SDK to take their app to Android. This is a local only position - you&#x27;ll be located with our team here in San Francisco.<p>This would be approximately a six week contract, starting ASAP, and can be renewed.<p>No Android experience required (you&#x27;ll be using the Apportable SDK). iOS or C++ game development experience will be helpful. Bonus if you know anything about OpenGL ES.<p>Interested? Send along your resume to jobs+hnfreelancer@apportable.com

by: ycombcj
text: URGENTLY - SYDNEY,AUSTRALIA<p>We are looking for a gun web frontend developer and designer, seeking to use their talent to help a focused airline team put together business application prototypes using the latest web technologies and techniques.<p>- You will have 8+ years of experience and can point towards YOUR online portfolio. 
- You will be fluent in English and be able to confidently communicate your approach and understand our requirements.
- You will have experience with a well rounded set of frontend technologies, backend development will not be required but familiarity will be an advantage.
- You will be delivery focused.<p>Your initial engagement will be for 2-3months with an immediate start.
Your remuneration will be competitive and opportunity for contract renewal will depend on your performance.<p>Exceptional remote workers will be considered, however; those based in Sydney, Australia are preferred.<p>To register your interest, email recruitment@7skies.com with your location, skillset, portfolio link and remuneration expectation.

by: Element_
text: Frontend Designer - remote okay<p>Looking for a designer&#x2F;frontend person to design a logo, color scheme, &quot;coming soon page&quot;, and a simple 1 page product website for a new startup.<p>It would be ideal if you could include a rough cost estimate for the work above and a link to some other project you&#x27;ve done.<p>Contact: zacgross [at] leamr.com

by: cmcaleenan
text: Boulder, CO &#x2F; Remote OK<p>ITG makes software for cities. We&#x27;re looking for a freelance&#x2F;contract Javascript Developer for a 3+ month position. You&#x27;ll be working on a product that helps cities maintain their underground infrastructure. We take in data from robots crawling through pipelines and manholes (bet you didn&#x27;t know that existed) and help city engineers make critical decisions about system rehabilitation.<p>We&#x27;re full-stack JS, meaning node on the server and phonegap for our mobile apps. The right person will be able to work from anywhere, choose her projects (we have a few right now), and influence technology and architecture.<p>Front-end JS, node, Mongo experience required. Bonus points for PhoneGap, GIS (ESRI), and&#x2F;or hardware hackery skills.
Interested? Email me at chris@industrialtechgroup.com and let&#x27;s talk further. Thanks!

by: mjwhansen
text: Remote (US-based only) or Washington DC<p>An interactive agency seeks 1-2 PHP developers with Drupal experience for remote or on-site work in Washington DC. INDIVIDUALS ONLY -- NO COMPANIES.<p>Qualifications:
• Excellent PHP skills
• Skilled at converting layered design files into HTML&#x2F;CSS or Drupal themes
• Detail-oriented, focused, and able to work independently
• Must have prior experience with Drupal; experience with Drupal 7 a plus
• Professional demeanor -- able to interact directly with clients<p>Responsibilities:
• Responsible for themeing and programming
• Client consultations on design, layout, UX, and information architecture
• Create site maps and wireframes
• Convert design composites into Drupal custom themes<p>To apply, send resume, work samples, and hourly rate to jobs@engagedc.com with the subject &quot;Drupal Developer&#x2F;Themer.&quot;

by: aaroneous
text: Remote or SF Bay Area<p>Our company (www.theshoppad.com) makes a product that turns eCommerce desktop sites in to a compelling SPA experience for tablet shoppers done entirely in the browser with HTML5 + JS. We&#x27;re now in the early stages of developing a version for mobile phones (targeting Mobile Safari &amp; Android).<p>What we&#x27;re looking for:
* Experience building mobile-web single page apps
* Able to write high-performance JavaScript that performs well under the constraints of mobile devices
* Familiarity with JS frameworks (Angular, Backbone, Batman, etc) preferred, but not required
* Attention to detail<p>If this sounds like it might be a good fit, please send me (aaronw@theshoppad.com) some examples of work you&#x27;ve done similar to the above requirements and we can schedule a time to chat further.

by: micahroberson
text: SEEKING FREELANCER(S) - Remote&#x2F;San Francisco&#x2F;Phoenix<p>ReadyApps (<a href="http://www.readyappsdev.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.readyappsdev.com</a>) is a young, fast-growing dev shop seeking freelance developer(s). At this point, we&#x27;re looking to establish relationships with talented developers and work together on a project-by-project basis. Assuming our growth continues and the relationship goes well, a full-time position may be possible in the future.<p>For the most part, we work with a pretty standard Rails stack including Backbone, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, etc. and often deploy to self-managed servers as well as Heroku. We&#x27;re looking for front-end, back-end, or full-stack devs, so shoot me an email if you have any interest!<p>micah at readyappsdev.com

by: mbesto
text: &#x2F; CTO - London, UK (no remote)<p>We are looking for a talented, motivated and ambitious developer who is interested in an equity share and the ability to move into a CTO role. VC funding discussions already in motion, as well as distributors will to use and test the MVP. We are currently technology agnostic.<p>Founder is experienced entrepreneur in the Motorsport and Automotive space looking to develop a MVP for Porsche, Aston Martin and Radical Sportscars with the idea of launching a new company in London and securing seed stage VC funding.<p>So if you (1) ship code and (2) like the automotive space, please get in touch with Byron at byron.smith@me.com<p>Offices in Chiswell Street, EC2

by: mail_me_HN
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>We are looking for a web developer (Code Igniter preferred) to further develop a web project along with some bug fixing and minor feature development. We would also like this developer to have familiarity with AWS and Stripe payment gateway (and Paypal too, nice to have but not necessary) as well.<p>Please send some of your work example along with your rate and your work experience.  Selected candidates will be interviewed further via Skype or Google Talk.<p>This could be a long term gig if we work well together.<p>Please email at mail.me.to.my@gmail.com for further discussion.<p>Thank you.

by: benpbenp
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS - Remote but UK and London based strongly preferred<p>I am looking for two separate freelancer-types to help with some overbooked client work of mine.<p>First, I need a fairly junior PHP + frontend developer.
It would be grand if you had CodeIgniter experience, extra-grand if you had ExpressionEngine experience, but neither of those is required.<p>Second, I am looking for a mid-level to senior web designer. Front-end development skills preferred but not required.<p>Get in touch at my username at gmail, be sure to include your rate!

by: DaveChild
text: LaTeX nerd, remote is fine (I&#x27;m based in the UK)<p>I&#x27;ve been tearing my hair our with a LaTeX template generator and builder. I need help, while I still have some small coverage of my head. I&#x27;m looking for someone who knows their way around LaTeX, especially if they have worked with complex nested tabular layouts, UTF8 issues, and so on.<p>Email me at dave@addedbytes.com for more details.

by: ghought
text: New York - Remote<p>New bootstrap venture seeking programmer to build MVP&#x2F;Proof of Concept for demo purposes. Product is a consumer-facing, service-oriented web application. Project requires front-end and back-end construction, API integration, and database knowledge.<p>Please email ghought@gmail.com with interest and any relevant examples of work.

by: amac
text: remote<p>Human Software are looking for an marketing consultant to work with us on a freelance and remote basis.<p>The person we’re looking for is accountable, agile, customer focused and above all, passionate about Marketing.<p>Visit www.usehuman.com for more info or email am@usehuman.com.

by: robbiehudson
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>We&#x27;re looking for an Android developer in London, UK for an initial two week project.<p>About us:<p>Geckoboard help companies make better decisions using their data. (<a href="http://www.geckoboard.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geckoboard.com</a>)<p>Email: rob at geckoboard.com

by: olie_h
text: SEEKING FREELANCER
I&#x27;m looking for a fellow freelancer to help me with a project I&#x27;m currently working on.<p>Skills required: objective-C<p>Contact details are in my profile.

by: pb1234
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS &#x2F; LONG TERM PARTNERS - REMOTE ONLY -<p>KICKASS CODE POET PROGRAMMER NEEDED - API MASHUPS, SAAS, WEB APPS, WEB SCRAPING, ETC.<p>NOTE: I&#x27;m not in love with any of the tech I mention below, so if you&#x27;re interested but don&#x27;t see your preferred development tool listed, please still get in touch!<p>Let&#x27;s create code poetry :) If you are a creative, personable developer ANYWHERE in the world who wants to be a part of some cool, challenging projects, please get in touch.<p>I like modular, agile development where we prepare clear specs together to get MVPs to market. Let&#x27;s target unique market niches and experiment with novel monetization and promotion strategies together.<p>Let&#x27;s talk about a few of the projects I have in mind and the technology we can use.<p>First, project-wise, here are some things I am pursuing:<p>(1) Niche price comparison sites
(2) Unique web directory sites
(3) SaaS web applications<p>If selected, the first project you&#x27;ll be working on is in the price comparison niche, specifically related to textbooks. Here&#x27;s a GORGEOUS example: www.slugbooks.com.<p>When it comes to technology, you are the expert, but here is what I have in mind:<p>(1) Extensive use of APIs (datafeed, aggregator, etc.) to obtain real-time data and communicate or coordinate with other APIs (and utilizing programmer speak like REST, XML, JSON, etc.)<p>(2) Some specific APIs are already in mind, but one will be the Amazon API to utilize their product catalog data for some projects<p>(3) Leaning towards LAMP (PHP&#x2F;MySQL), PHP frameworks like CodeIgnitor and others, and maybe utilizing WordPress at times to leverage their plugin catalog, obtain themes&#x2F;frameworks to jumpstart visuals, and take advantage of better out of the box SEO structure<p>(4) Utilizing databases as well as API data to create auto-scaling sites where new pages are created automatically and marked up for SEO and user functionality, as well as maintaining site stability and user value creation<p>(5) SUPER IMPORTANT: Looking to utilize preexisting codebases (e.g., GitHub) whenever possible, as well as themes&#x2F;plugins, art assets, purchasable solutions, or other ways to jumpstart development by spending a small one-time or monthly fee to save hundreds of hours of work.<p>In other words, no need to own a Pinto when we can rent a Porsche, right? ;) You may be familiar with ThemeForest, commerical WordPress themes (WooThemes, Genesis, Etc.), WPMUDEV, Twitter Bootstrap, and the numerous other sites out there that we can tap for resources.<p>In closing, if you have a familiarity or interest with any of the above, let&#x27;s talk. Thanks for your time :)<p>CONTACT: fevllc AT gmail DOT com

by: adammichaelc
text: SEEKING FREELANCER<p>REMOTE IS FINE<p>We are in Cupertino.<p>We believe in hiring people who have a passion for their craft. If you join us you will get to work alongside folks who really care about the work they do. Sound interesting? Please keep reading.<p><i>About Us</i><p>We are the team behind Mokriya Craigslist. Time, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, Xconomy, and a slew of tech bloggers raved about it. Check it out. <a href="http://craigslist.mokriya.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;craigslist.mokriya.com&#x2F;</a><p>We are kind of a &quot;special forces&quot; team of engineers, UX designers, and thinkers. We have worked for some of the hottest tech startups in Silicon Valley, including Path, MixPanel, Threadflip, SimpleGeo, SideCar, etc.<p>Google has us on a list of &quot;best mobile development teams in the country&quot; so we get calls from them occasionally too.<p><i>About You</i><p>You&#x27;re a Technical-Geek&#x2F;Copywriter Hybrid. You are a technophile by nature, and love learning about and exploring new technologies. You don&#x27;t have to be an engineer, but you should have a solid grasp of things like MVC, agile development, etc. If you know the other side of the shop (user-centered design), you get bonus points. Basically, you need to be able to speak intelligently about software development, specifically as it relates to Mobile.<p>Also, you should be very good at breaking down complicated ideas into bite-sized morsels of &quot;oohhh, I get it&quot; gooeyness. Our target audience are the business-people who make decisions about technologies to use inside of companies. The rare few are engineers. Most are not. If you can connect well with these people (the challenges of working inside a big co., getting projects out the door, playing the political games, etc.), then you will get more bonus points! :)<p><i>About the Work</i><p>We are creating a series of guides as a part of a larger content-marketing vision. The guides we write will cover topics like, &quot;How to vet and hire a great mobility firm,&quot; &quot;Best practices for creating a compelling mobile experience,&quot; &quot;Advanced guide to understanding the cross-platform tools available&quot;, etc.<p>We have 2 full-time, awesome designers, who you will work closely with to make the pieces super-compelling. We will loosely borrow the style of these guides:<p>* <a href="http://www.quicksprout.com/the-advanced-guide-to-content-marketing/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quicksprout.com&#x2F;the-advanced-guide-to-content-mar...</a><p>* <a href="http://moz.com/learn/seo" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;moz.com&#x2F;learn&#x2F;seo</a><p>Looking forward to connecting. Email adam@mokriya.com to kick off a conversation.<p>Thanks,
Adam